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“There is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time. The younger rocks in…

— Neil Shubin

“Interested in the origin of mammals? Go to rocks from the period called the Early Mesozoic; geochemistry tells us that these rocks are likely…

— Neil Shubin

“The Archean Eon was followed by the Proterozoic Eon, each billions of years; then the Paleozoic: the Cambrian’s seventy million years, the Ordovician’s sixty…

— Liu Cixin

“To get a sense of the scale of Earth history, imagine walking back in time, a hundred years per step—every pace equal to more…

— Robert M. Hazen

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the…

— Elaine Morgan

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

— Sugata Mitra

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“We evolved from apes and we’re going extinct.”

— Dan Brown

“Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking for these hypothetical forms. They have found millions of invertebrate fossils and millions…

— Harun Yahya

“Who would have imagined a creature that has lived thousands of years would find itself short of time.”

— Mike Mehalek

“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their entire existence…

— Svante Pääbo